(I wandered here from Dungeonwriter's blog, if you're wondering.)
Would this happen to be the essay in question (1)? (If it is, good call re the Symbolist/Decadent context and amazing polysyllabic rhyming--in fact, I'm fond of citing this song as a stellar example of the latter.)
The combination of darkly foreboding lyrics with a crisp, punchy, danceable beat is one of the fastest routes to my musical heart; other examples include Bowie's "1984" (2), Toyah Willcox's "Ieya" (3), and Abney Park's "Hush" (4).
(For some reason, I find myself associating "Nemesis" with Ray Bradbury's story "The Homecoming"--"everybody happy as the dead come home"? It's certainly apropos background music for revelry among a secret cabal of monsters.)
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Date: 2010-03-14 08:38 pm (UTC)Would this happen to be the essay in question (1)? (If it is, good call re the Symbolist/Decadent context and amazing polysyllabic rhyming--in fact, I'm fond of citing this song as a stellar example of the latter.)
The combination of darkly foreboding lyrics with a crisp, punchy, danceable beat is one of the fastest routes to my musical heart; other examples include Bowie's "1984" (2), Toyah Willcox's "Ieya" (3), and Abney Park's "Hush" (4).
(For some reason, I find myself associating "Nemesis" with Ray Bradbury's story "The Homecoming"--"everybody happy as the dead come home"? It's certainly apropos background music for revelry among a secret cabal of monsters.)
(1)http://jwm.livejournal.com/105861.html
(2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ymyWS82NsY
(3)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6p8iYkWe0
(4)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ssKE540XY